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Language & Power: Power in Discourse

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
Date
1.

If power is enforceable because it comes from a place of authority - eg rules, laws - it can be described as...

a)

influential power

b)

instrumental power

2.

The power to shape ideas or to persuade an audience can be described as...

a)

influential power

b)

instrumental power

3.

In rhetoric, an appeal to logic, reason and rationality is known as...

a)

ethos

b)

pathos

c)

logos

d)

kairos

4.

'Teacher talk' is an example of...

a)

instrumental power (spoken)

b)

instrumental power (written)

c)

Influential power (spoken)

d)

influential power (written)

5.

Modal auxiliary verbs that express possibility, probability or certainty are known as...

a)

epistemic

b)

deontic

6.

Modal auxiliary verbs that express degrees of necessity and obligation are known as...

a)

epistemic

b)

deontic

7.

Every profession generates its own specialised language or field specific lexis. We often call this...

a)

rhetoric

b)

graphology

c)

jargon

d)

neologisms

8.

Which of these is not likely to be a graphology feature?

a)

Images

b)

Rhetorical devices

c)

Font

d)

Colour

e)

Layout

9.

Which rhetorical device is this: opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction

a)

antithesis

b)

asyndeton

c)

anaphora

d)

assonance

10.

Which rhetorical device is this: understatement, for intensification, by denying the opposite of the thing being affirmed. (Eg 'not bad' rather than 'good')

a)

metonymy

b)

litotes

c)

tautology

d)

zeugma